The 1966 season

Typhoon Ida (1966)

Typhoon Ida reached Category 3 in the Western Pacific between September 18, 1966 and September 26, 1966, with a lowest pressure of 960 mb, and made landfall.

Track and intensity

The whole track of Typhoon Ida, colored by strength, with the other storms of the 1966 season in the same basin behind it, and its wind and pressure hour by hour. Every fix is in the track table below.

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The storm

Basin
Western Pacific
Dates
September 18, 1966 to September 26, 1966
Peak strength
Category 3, 100 kt (115 mph)
Lowest pressure
960 mb (28.35 inHg)
Landfall
Yes
Accumulated cyclone energy
8.4
Fastest the center moved
44 kt (51 mph)
Identifier
WP231966

Deaths and damage

No source this site reads publishes a machine-readable casualty or damage figure for a storm of this era. The National Hurricane Center’s season tables begin in 1995 and carry deaths and damage only from 2005 in the Atlantic and 2020 in both basins; the US Storm Events record begins in 1996.

Track

Time (UTC)PositionWindPressureStatus
Sep 18, 00:0013.3N 158.3EDisturbance
Sep 18, 06:0013.3N 157.6EDisturbance
Sep 18, 12:0013.3N 157.2EDisturbance
Sep 18, 18:0013.4N 156.6EDisturbance
Sep 19, 00:0013.5N 156.2EDisturbance
Sep 19, 06:0013.7N 155.6EDisturbance
Sep 19, 12:0013.8N 155.2EDisturbance
Sep 19, 18:0014.0N 154.6EDisturbance
Sep 20, 00:0014.2N 154.2EDisturbance
Sep 20, 06:0014.3N 153.6EDisturbance
Sep 20, 12:0014.5N 153.3EDisturbance
Sep 20, 18:0014.8N 152.7EDisturbance
Sep 21, 00:0015.0N 152.4EDisturbance
Sep 21, 06:0015.4N 151.9EDisturbance
Sep 21, 12:0015.8N 151.3EDisturbance
Sep 21, 18:0016.3N 150.6EDisturbance
Sep 22, 00:0016.2N 150.7E35 kt1000 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 06:0017.3N 149.4E45 kt998 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 12:0018.3N 147.6E60 kt990 mbTropical storm
Sep 22, 18:0018.9N 145.6E75 kt982 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 00:0019.7N 143.7E80 kt976 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 06:0021.0N 142.1E85 kt974 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 12:0022.5N 140.5E90 kt974 mbTropical storm
Sep 23, 18:0024.3N 139.3E95 kt970 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 00:0026.5N 138.3E100 kt965 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 06:0029.4N 137.8E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 12:0032.9N 137.9E100 kt960 mbTropical storm
Sep 24, 18:0036.3N 138.8E70 kt972 mbTropical storm
Sep 25, 00:0039.9N 142.3E50 kt998 mbMixed
Sep 25, 06:0042.2N 147.2E50 kt1000 mbMixed
Sep 25, 12:0041.7N 147.7E35 kt1002 mbMixed
Sep 25, 18:0042.0N 149.0E25 kt1002 mbMixed
Sep 26, 00:0043.0N 150.0E20 kt1002 mbMixed
Sep 26, 06:0041.0N 156.0E1006 mbExtratropical

Other Western Pacific storms of 1966

What this means

A best track is the record a warning agency settles on after the storm, not what it said at the time: position, maximum sustained wind and central pressure every six hours, revised against every observation that came in later. Category is the Saffir-Simpson scale, which runs from Category 1 at 64 kt to Category 5 at 137 kt and reads wind only, so it says nothing about surge or rain. Accumulated cyclone energy adds up the square of the wind through the storm's life, so it counts strength and duration together.

Sources

Storm history from NOAA NCEI’s International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS), which merges the official best track of every warning agency. Live storms, cones, watches and warnings from the National Hurricane Center and the Central Pacific Hurricane Center. Archived radar from NOAA’s Level II archive.